Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Euripides, Anne Carson (Translator), Anne Carson (Introduction by)Series:New York Review Books (Paperback)Publish date:2008-08-01Pages:312
Language:EnglishPublisher:New York Review of BooksISBN-13:9781590172537ISBN-10:1590172531UPC:9781590172537Book Category:Drama, PoetryBook Subcategory:Ancient & Classical, Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:Death, Grief, LossSize:7.90 x 5.40 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.7518Product ID:SCYY9P2F2Y
Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides
Now in paperback. Euripides, the last of the three great tragedians of ancient Athens, reached the height of his renown during the disastrous Peloponnesian War, when democratic Athens was brought down by its own outsized ambitions. "Euripides," the classicist Bernard Knox has written, "was born never to live in peace with himself and to prevent the rest of mankind from doing so." His plays were...
Series: New York Review Books (Paperback)
Language:EnglishPublisher:New York Review of BooksISBN-13:9781590172537ISBN-10:1590172531UPC:9781590172537Book Category:Drama, PoetryBook Subcategory:Ancient & Classical, Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:Death, Grief, LossSize:7.90 x 5.40 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.7518Product ID:SCYY9P2F2Y
Euripides (c. 485--406 BCE) wrote ninety-two plays, of which eighteen survive-more than twice as many as survive from any other Greek tragedian. They include Medea, Andromache, Cyclops, Electra, The Trojan Women, Helen, The Phoenician Women, Orestes, and The Bacchae. Anne Carson was twice a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; was honored with the 1996 Lannan Award and the...
Publisher: New York Review of Books
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Euripides, Anne Carson (Translator), Anne Carson (Introduction by)
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